Call for Papers: The 2015 World Congress in CS, CE, & Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'15), U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015, Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015

                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

  CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

                 Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015

                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

  The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,

                      and Applied Computing

                  July 27-30, 2015, Las Vegas, USA

              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit

their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore,

authors who have ALREADY submitted papers in response to earlier "Call

For Papers" should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been

notified that their papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the

instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines

mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them).

INVITATION:

You are invited to submit a "LATE BREAKING PAPER", "POSITION PAPER", or

"ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER" for consideration. All accepted papers will be

published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also

be made available online. In addition, like prior years, extended

versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the conference will appear

in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer,

Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and journal special

issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective

fields. See the link below for a very small subset of the books published

mostly based on extended versions of the accepted papers of this congress:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications . The

titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into

the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes

bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (federated/joint

conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions);

all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30,

2015. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below. To get a

feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos

available at:

http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:

In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to

submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three paper

categories:

   1. LATE BREAKING PAPERS: describe late-breaking/recent developments in

      the field. The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the

      following on the first page of your submission "name of conference:

      LATE BREAKING PAPER". If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-

      Ready paper will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages and

      the author will be given the opportunity to present the paper in a

      formal session.

   2. POSITION PAPERS: enable discussions on emerging topics without the

      experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,

      such papers will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward

      with evidence from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.

      The maximum number of pages is 5. Please write the following on the

      first page of your submission "name of conference: POSITION PAPER".

      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be

      limited to 4 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be

      given the opportunity to present the paper in a formal session.

   3. ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPERS: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD

      plan or PhD prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please

      write the following on the first page of your submission "name of

      conference: ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER". If accepted, The length of the

      final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited to 2 (two-column IEEE

      style) pages and the author will be given the opportunity to

      present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them

to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must

be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either

MS doc or pdf formats. All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable

(later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a

particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for

publication; these formatting instructions appear at:

http://world-comp.org  and they conform to the two-column IEEE style

format). Papers must not have been previously published or currently

submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should

include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email

address for each author as well as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that

would best represent the content of the paper. The first page should also

identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding author together with

his/her professional email address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should

appear on the first page. Authors are to conform to the common CODE OF

ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the Code of Ethics is available on

the submission web site.)

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for

originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of

contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program

committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);

often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers

whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will

be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical

papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and

will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in

science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each

published paper. All proceedings are also approved for inclusion into

EBSCO ( www.ebsco.com ), one of the largest subject index systems. The

titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into

the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes

bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple

books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in

Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer

publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational

Intelligence). After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18

months), a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our

congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version

of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We

anticipate having between 10 and 20 books a year in each of these

book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to

Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:

Scopus, www.info.scopus.com ; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,

www.ei.org ; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com ; and others). For a recent

and a very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that

have been published based on the extended versions of many of our

congress papers, see the link below:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement,

will have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the

Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press

soon after the conference (the conference would then make the necessary

arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/books to such authors).

The Final Edition of the conference proceedings will be identical to

earlier edition except for a number of sections/chapters appended to

the proceedings/book.

LIST OF CONFERENCES (in no particular order):

o PDPTA'15:

  The 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing

  Techniques and Applications

o IPCV'15:

  The 19th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,

  & Pattern Recognition

o ICAI'15:

  The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o SAM'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Security and Management

o FECS'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer

  Science and Computer Engineering

o BIOCOMP'15:

  The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational

  Biology

o ABDA'15:

  The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o SERP'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and

  Practice

o EEE'15:

  The 14th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise

  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ICWN'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o ICOMP'15:

  The 16th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o HIMS'15:

  International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems

o BIOENG'15:

  International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Science

o DMIN'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Data Mining

o CSC'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o MSV'15:

  The 12th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and

  Visualization Methods

o ESA'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o IKE'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o GCA'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and

  Applications

July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; i.e., same

location and dates.

IMPORTANT DATES:

May 31, 2015:       Submission of LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,

                    ABSTRACTS/POSTERS for evaluation (the sooner, a submission

                    is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.)

June 14, 2015:      The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically 10

                    days after the paper has been submitted but by no later than

                    June 14.

June 24, 2015:      Registration due

July 27-30, 2015:   The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer

                    Engineering, and Applied Computing (including all affiliated

                    and federated conferences, tutorials, and workshops).

                    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

August 20, 2015:    Camera-Ready LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/

                    POSTERS Due for publication. Papers submitted and accepted in

                    response to this announcement will be published in the Final

                    Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon after

                    the conference; they will also be indexed in science citation

                    index databases. The Final Edition of the proceedings will be

                    identical to the Preliminary Edition except for the addition

                    of the accepted LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,

                    ABSTRACTS/POSTERS at the end of the books. The conference

                    would make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed

                    proceedings/books to such authors.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures,

invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster

presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have

included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,

Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),

Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of

Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of

Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,

Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),

Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;

OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford

U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),

Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose

L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of

Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/

2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet

Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System

Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;

Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),

Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue

University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology

Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell

University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former

director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National

Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC

Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,

USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv

University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;

Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and

author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished

Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science

and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);

Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;

Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled

Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State

University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied

Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and

The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA

and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John

McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);

and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five

largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer

engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from

about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'

atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on

"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for

a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,

developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted

effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities

(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,

and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also

attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as

their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that

have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to

achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated

research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated

research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model

facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer

science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also

encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;

i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across

sub-disciplines.

TUTORIALS:

All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the list of tutorials

that have been approved so far can be found at: (Under Construction)

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/tutorials .

We plan to offer about 12 tutorials and panel discussions. As of the

writing of this announcement, the following tutorials are in the

pipeline of approval and final review; tutorials will be presented by

distinguished experts in their respective fields.

O. Building Dependable Distributed Systems

O. Introduction to Cryptography and Network Security

O. Motion Tracking and Recognition with Microsoft Kinect

O. Application of MATLAB in Science and Engineering

O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)

O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy

O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data

O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond

O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges

O. Big Data and Data Analytics (multiple proposals received)

O. Data Center and related issues

O. Visualization and datamining in the context of Big Data

O. Power-aware systems and efficient consumption issues for HPC

O. Big Data Analytics

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 14, 2014, papers published in the conference proceedings

that have been held as part of this congress, have received over

27,914 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is

obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not

even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences

whose first offerings were initiated by this congress. Individual

proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress can be

purchased from major science book distributors: (such as: EBSCO and

others):

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of Apr. 15, 2015: World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015

Dear Colleagues:

Since the original deadline for submission of papers coincided with the Spring

break of many US and Far East institutions, the Steering Committee decided to

extend the deadlines in response to numerous requests. Those authors who met

the original deadlines, will receive the decision on their papers based on

the original dates; i.e., notifications will not be delayed for those authors.

We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants in this event.

Thank you, Steering Committee

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                          CALL  FOR  PAPERS

         Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 15, 2015

                  11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

              The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science,

              Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                             WORLDCOMP'15

          July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA

              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

INVITATION:

Last year, this congress had attracted speakers/authors affiliated with

over 180 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked

institutions), many major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google,

SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, and others),

government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, AirForce, ...), and national

laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley

National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, ...) This year, we also plan to

have representatives of various Venture Capitalists as well as speakers

discussing Intellectual Property issues.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers

will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will

also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science

citation databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition, like

prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the

conference will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers

include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and

journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in

their respective fields. See the link below for a very small subset of

the books published mostly based on extended versions of the accepted

papers of this congress:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications

The titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into

the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic

citations from major publishers in computing.

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials,

sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held

simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015. For the complete

list of joint conferences, see below.

SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them

to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must

be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either

MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and

references.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,

the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular

typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication; these

formatting instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org and they conform

to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers must not have been previously

published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first

page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,

postal address, and email address for each author as well as a maximum

of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

The first page should also identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding

author together with his/her professional email address. A 100 to

150-word abstract should appear on the first page. Authors are to

conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the

Code of Ethics is available on the submission web site.)

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for

originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of

contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program

committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);

often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers

whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will

be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical

papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and

will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/books will

be available for distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings

will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation

frequency/data for each published paper. The proceedings/books of this

congress have been evaluated for inclusion into major science citation

index databases. We are happy to report that so far, the evaluation

board of science citation index databases have approved the indexing,

integrating, and inclusion of the following conference tracks into

relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include, among others:

Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others): BIOCOMP, DMIN, GCA,

ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM.  All proceedings are also

approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the largest

subject index systems. The titles of proceedings of the federated

congress have been indexed into the ACM Digital Library

( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic citations from major

publishers in computing.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple

books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in

Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers

(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).

After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant

number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the

opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication

consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 20 books

a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series

will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which

includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com ; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,

www.ei.org ; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com ; and others). For a recent and a

very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have

been published based on the extended versions of many of our congress

papers, see the link below:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same

instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR

EVALUATION) except that the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the

first page, the author should state that "This paper is being

submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published

as such, if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to

do so.

LIST OF CONFERENCES (in no particular order):

o PDPTA'15:

  The 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing

  Techniques and Applications

o DMIN'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Data Mining

o IPCV'15:

  The 19th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,

  & Pattern Recognition

o ICAI'15:

  The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o SAM'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Security and Management

o FECS'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer

  Science and Computer Engineering

o BIOCOMP'15:

  The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational

  Biology

o ABDA'15:

  The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o SERP'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and

  Practice

o EEE'15:

  The 14th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise

  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ICWN'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o ICOMP'15:

  The 16th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o HIMS'15:

  International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems

o BIOENG'15:

  International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Science

o CSC'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o MSV'15:

  The 12th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and

  Visualization Methods

o ESA'15:

  The 13th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o IKE'15:

  The 14th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o GCA'15:

  The 11th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and

  Applications

July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; i.e., same location

and dates.

IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED):

April 15, 2015:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)

                   11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

April 30, 2015:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 15, 2015:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 27-30, 2015:  The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer

                   Engineering, and Applied Computing

                   (including all affiliated federated conferences).

                   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures,

invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster

presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have

included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,

Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),

Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of

Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of

Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,

Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),

Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;

OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford

U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),

Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose

L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of

Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/

2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet

Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System

Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;

Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),

Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue

University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology

Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell

University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former

director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National

Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC

Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,

USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv

University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;

Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and

author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished

Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science

and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);

Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;

Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled

Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State

University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied

Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and

The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA

and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John

McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);

and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five

largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer

engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from

about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'

atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on

"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for

a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,

developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted

effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities

(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,

and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also

attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as

their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that

have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to

achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated

research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated

research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model

facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer

science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also

encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;

i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across

sub-disciplines.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the

last offerings of the congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief

Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Vice President, Global

Information Security, Visa Inc., USA; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and

Department Chair, and Vice Chair of IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University

of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor

of Computer Science, Elected Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal

of Supercomputing (Springer), University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary

Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice, University

of Southern California, USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of

California Los Angeles, UCLA, USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of

Information Management, Central Police University, Taiwan and Program

Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan and Director, Information Crypto

and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG; Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos,

Professor of Computer Systems and Director of Laboratory of Digital

Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group,

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of

Computer Science and Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Programs, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof.

Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and Professor of Computer

and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts,

USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, University

Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical University,

Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of Cybernetics,

Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of

Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. George

Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director, School of Computing and

Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, Director

2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, University of Maine,

Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal

University of Studies, India (and Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of

Information Technology, India); Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor

of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS,

President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals;

Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,

Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic,

Microsoft, Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich

State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia;

Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of

ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research,

Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT

and Harvard Universities and PC member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence

Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of

Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;

Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and

Secretary-General of WABT and Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor,

University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer

Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician,

Maverick Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of

Computer Science,Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science

(SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M

University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow,

ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia

Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q.

Yang, Director, Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics

Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas, USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia

Processing Communications Lab.(MPCL), SunMoon University, South Korea;

Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Processing

Systems (JIPS), Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea; and others.

The 2015 Program Committee for individual conferences are currently being

compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,

scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;

many are directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/

chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as

well as deans and provosts.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 14, 2014, papers published in the conference proceedings

that have been held as part of this congress, have received over

27,914 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is

obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not

even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences

whose first offerings were initiated by worldcomp. Individual proceedings/

books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress can be purchased from major

science book distributors: (such as: EBSCO and others):

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings

MISCELLANEOUS:

The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of

January 1, 2015.

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Call for Papers: The 2015 International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data (ICOMP'15), U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015

                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015

                              ICOMP'15

                The 2015 International Conference on

                   Internet Computing and Big Data

         July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/conferences/icomp15

=======================================================================

SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

o  Social networks

o  Traffic models and statistics

o  Metacomputing

o  Electronic commerce and internet

o  Design and analysis of internet protocols and engineering

o  Web based computing

o  Web mining

o  Network architectures and network computing

o  Wide area consistency

o  Internet and emerging technologies

o  Internet security and trust

o  Internet law and compliance

o  Internet based decision support systems

o  Internet and enterprise management

o  Internet applications and appliances

o  Internet banking systems

o  Internet and video technologies

o  Caching algorithms for the internet

o  Grid based computing and internet tools

o  Cooperative applications

o  Tele-medical and other applications

o  Mobile computing and the internet

o  Agents for internet computing

o  The WWW and intranets

o  Digital libraries/digital image collections

o  Languages for distributed programming

o  Web interfaces to databases

o  The Internet and Cloud computing

o  Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML/...

o  Alternative web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ...

o  Server space/web server performance

o  Web monitoring

o  Web documents management

o  Web site design and coordination

o  Other aspects and applications relating to internet-based computing

o  Computer Games Design and Development:

   - Managing gaming communities

   - Augmented reality games

   - Special-purpose hardware for games

   - Computer games and education

   - Threading technologies for games

   - Assessment of new generation of computer games

   - The impact of art and culture in game design

   - Game theory as it relates to internet

   - Artificial intelligence and computer games

   - Tools for game development on the internet

   - Grid computing and games

   - 3D hardware accelerators for games on the internet

   - Audio-video communication tools for network 3D games

   - Virtual actors

   - Virtual world creation

   - Holographic displays and games

   - Computer graphics and virtual reality tools for games

   - Innovative products for game development

   - Case studies

O  Big Data:

   - Algorithms for enhancing data quality

   - Models and frameworks for Big Data

   - Graph algorithms and Big Data

   - Machine learning

   - Natural language processing

   - Cloud based infrastructures (storage & computing resources)

   - Grid and stream computing for Big Data

   - HPC, including parallel & distributed processing

   - Programming models and environments to support Big Data

   - Emerging architectural frameworks for Big Data

   - Web search technologies

   - Cleaning Big Data (noise reduction), acquisition & integration

   - Big Data as a service

   - Big Data analytics in e-Government and society

   - Applications in science, engineering, healthcare, visualization,

     business, education, security, humanities, bioinformatics, health

     informatics, medicine, finance, law, transportation, retailing,

     telecommunication, all search-based applications, ...

o  Semantic Web:

   - Machine learning approaches for semantic web

   - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning

   - Database technologies for semantic web

   - Semantic knowledge portals

   - Semantic web mining

   - Metadata generation

   - Semantic web services

   - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security

   - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data

   - Semantic searching

   - Reasoning in the semantic web

   - Hypermedia and semantic web

   - Software agents for semantic web

   - Community web portals

   - Trust management for semantic web

   - Semantic interoperability

   - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation

   - Semantic web-based knowledge management and extraction

   - Ontology languages for semantic web

   - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation

   - Data semantics

   - Intersection of Big Data and semantic web

   - Case studies

o  Web Services:

   - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:

     Enhancements to the basic web services platform such as SOAP,

     WSDL, UDDI, ...; advanced web service technologies including

     security, workflow and process management, transactions, mobile

     and wireless, portals, services management, quality-of-service

     (QoS); novel web service architectures; development and modeling

     frameworks for web service applications; composite web services,

     enabling technologies and support infrastructure; data

     structures and models.

   - Practices for Developing Enterprise-class Web Services and Applications:

     Design patterns; architecting for customization, maintenance,

     and management; architecting for easy integration or service

     "consumption"; fault-tolerant architectures; service mediation

     systems and architectures.

   - Case Studies of Web Service Development and Deployment:

     e-Commerce applications using web services; Business-to-Business

     (B2B) applications using web services; mobile and wireless

     applications using web services; utility and on-demand computing

     using web services; government applications using web services;

     applications of web services in developing countries.

   - Multimedia applications using web services

   - Interactive TV applications using web services

   - Big Data:

     Scalable web services for Big Data; services for data integration;

     web services for mapping data to information and to knowledge.

   - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies

The conference is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,

workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,

same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015.

INVITATION:

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers

will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will

also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science

citation databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition, like

prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the

conference will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers

include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and

journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in

their respective fields. See the link below for a very small subset of

the books published mostly based on extended versions of the accepted

papers of this congress:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications

The titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into

the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic

citations from major publishers in computing.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 31, 2015:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)

April 24, 2015:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 15, 2015:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 27-30, 2015:  The 2015 International Conference on Internet Computing

                   and Big Data (ICOMP'15)

SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them

to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must

be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either

MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and

references.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,

the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular

typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication; these

formatting instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org and they

conform to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers must not have been

previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name,

affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author as well

as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content

of the paper. The first page should also identify the name of the

Contact/Corresponding author together with his/her professional email

address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.

Authors are to conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The

document for the Code of Ethics is available on the submission web site.)

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for

originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of

contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program

committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);

often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers

whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will

be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical

papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and

will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/books will

be available for distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings

will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation

frequency/data. The proceedings/books of the federated congress that

this conference is part of have been evaluated for inclusion into major

science citation index databases. We are happy to report that so far,

the evaluation board of science citation index databases have approved

the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following conference

tracks into relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include,

among others: Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others):

BIOCOMP, DMIN, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM. All

proceedings are also approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com),

one of the largest subject index systems. The titles of proceedings of the

federated congress have been indexed into the ACM Digital Library

( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic citations from major

publishers in computing.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple

books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in

Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer

publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational

Intelligence). After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18

months), a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our

congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version

of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We

anticipate having between 10 and 20 books a year in each of these

book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to

Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:

Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,

www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). For a recent and

a very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have

been published based on the extended versions of our congress papers,

see below:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals

Some of these books and journal special issues have already received

the top 25% downloads in their respective fields - we already have a

number of Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same

instructions that appear in section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR

EVALUATION - except that the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the

first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted

as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published as such, if

and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to do so.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the

federated congress that this conference is part of included:

Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation,

USA) Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA;

Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair, and Vice Chair of

IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan,

USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow

of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),

University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner,

Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Southern California,

USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA,

USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information Management, Central

Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan

and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG;

Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer Systems and

Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms

and architectures Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece;

Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer

Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy,

Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM,

WASE and Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern

University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished

Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri,

Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at

The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia;

Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE

Institute, India; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director,

School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board

of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense

Competition, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey,

Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of Studies, India (and Adjunct

Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India);

Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and

Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of FTRA,

Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof. Fernando G.

Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Co-editor, Journal

of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington,

USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of

Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila,

Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM,

Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales

Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC

member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE);

Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department,

Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP,

Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of WABT and

Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK;

Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary

R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America;

Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President,

of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent

Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA;

Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The

National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,

Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South Bioinformatics

Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas,

USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing Communications Lab.(MPCL),

SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Editor-in-Chief

of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Dongguk University,

Seoul, South Korea; and others.

The 2015 Program Committee for individual conferences are currently being

compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,

scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;

many are directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/

chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as

well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and

documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program

Committee should email editor@world-comp.org  the following information

for consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,

email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise & the

name of this conference.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The federated Congress ( http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ ) that

this conference is part of is composed of research presentations, keynote

lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster

presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included:

Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,

Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),

Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of

Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of

Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,

Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),

Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;

OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford

U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),

Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose

L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of

Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/

2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet

Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System

Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;

Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),

Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue

University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology

Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell

University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former

director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National

Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC

Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,

USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv

University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;

Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and

author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished

Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science

and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);

Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;

Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled

Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State

University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied

Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and

The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA

and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John

McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);

and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five

largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer

engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from

about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'

atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on

"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for

a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,

developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted

effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities

(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,

and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also

attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as

their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that

have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to

achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated

research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated

research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model

facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer

science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also

encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;

i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across

sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 14, 2014, proceedings of the federated congress that this

conference is part of, have received over 27,914 citations (includes 3,346

self-citations). Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.

The citation data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations

to papers published by conferences whose first offerings were initiated

by the congress. Individual proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the

federated congress can be purchased from major science book distributors:

(such as: EBSCO and others):

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings

MISCELLANEOUS:

The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of

January 1, 2015.

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org